Is Twitter becoming Apple? The micro-blogging service has apparently begun confronting third-party developers for the use of the word "Tweet" in the names of their apps--a word for which Twitter filed a trademark, back in April of this year. The note reads, in part,
Twitter, Inc is uncomfortable with the use of the word Tweet (our trademark) and the similarity in your UI and our own. How can we go about having you change your UI to better differentiate your offering from our own?
As TechCrunch helpfully points out, there are a number of existing apps that already use the word in their name, like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard--just to name a few.
No word on whether the company has begun silencing song birds as well.
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